How often does an 'interesting' signal occur?
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How often does an 'interesting' signal occur?
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KarlDavin Send message Joined: 10 Jun 12 Posts: 2 Credit: 29,988 RAC: 0 
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Just wondered how often a signal crops up that warrants further checking? ID: 1250989 ·  |
 skildude  Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 
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pretty much every WU that returns has something of interest. The important thing is that these interesting signals repeat themselves in the same spot in the sky  In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope ID: 1251092 · |
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KarlDavin Send message Joined: 10 Jun 12 Posts: 2 Credit: 29,988 RAC: 0
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Thanks for that. I had no idea if it was possibly every WU, or one in a million WU's. I realise 'something interesting' could be anything and multiple checks are made etc, but was just curious. ID: 1251270 · |
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60
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virtually every WU finds something of interest that is reported back to S@H. The trick is having the result match certain criteria setup that matches what an ET singal would supposedly be. Those results are then put through the NTPKr process to weed out and sort signals. In the end very few "signals" (pulses,triplets gaussians or spikes) actually meet the criteria for potential signals In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope ID: 1251357 · |
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John Schafer Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,055,424 RAC: 5 
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Well it would be nice if we could actually see the results. I can't find anything on the site that shows current results and signals of interest. ID: 1273430 · |
John McLeod VII  Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0
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Well it would be nice if we could actually see the results. I can't find anything on the site that shows current results and signals of interest. The results of NITPCKR   BOINC WIKI ID: 1273565 · |
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